PICK UP YOUR WEAPONS AND OVERCOME DECEPTION

You’re Not Ready/Qualified (a common deceptive tactic)
We all have tests and trials for the increasing of our faith. Some trials seem greater than others, sometimes seeming like our breakthrough is farther than we can fathom. Yet, we grow leaps and bounds and overcome.
One appointed time in my life when I was weaker in the faith, I was a pastor in my youth, and I started waling in my calling, and praying for the sick, and teaching the Gospel. I had no clue of the opposition I would face simply because of my obedience to do the will and purpose of Christ. I just went forth and did what the Spirit of God led me to do. People were healed, delivered, and set free. Lives were changed for the good. While these works of faith continued to manifest, the adversary used people who were of the Christian sector to intimidate us into quitting.
 When I received an unction from the Lord Jesus to go forth and do a work, I didn’t come out of a church organization. I hadn’t been a deaconess for ten years or an assistant pastor who served up the ranking for some big bishop. There wasn’t this great ordination service. I simply answered the Voice of God. So, the form of intimidation that other pastors, apostles, and many people used was to say that I was out of order. They said God does things in decency and in order and I needed an apostle and I needed a church building. They even went so far to say that women weren’t pastors and that I was outside the will of God. Meanwhile, I just knew that I loved the Lord and I wanted to please him. I didn’t often guard my heart in those situations and because of it I often cried to the Lord. I couldn’t grasp the concept of how many people could say that they loved the Lord God and those same people could put so many restrictions on that love and the power of God that accompanied such a love during those times the Lord would minister to my Spirit and let me know that he was with me no matter the circumstance and no matter the situation. I didn’t have very many opportunities to fellowship, but the signs, miracles, and wonders that he used me to do were beyond the walls of the church, just as the days of old. Nonetheless, the work and His will was still accomplished. There were often times of discouragement and even moments of full-blown anger, but I didn’t give up, we kept trusting, seeking, and persevered through it. 
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